>Also, has anyone had any experience with the Mark Twain >CD-Rom which was offered by the Reader's Subscription? (There >was also one on Dickens.) I ordered it and it strikes me as >worthless. But maybe I'm missing something? Worthless, I think, is a bit of an overstatement. The sheer volume of material is pretty impressive, but there are some glaring errors. The study questions for some of the works are suspect; or, at least the answers are. For example, the question dealing with why Peter the cat went a bit wild in Tom Sawyer is, according to Twain's World, Tom did not feed the cat. In "Die Meisterschaft," the phrase, "Wo is seine . . ." has the word "seine" in boldface. Click on it and you find this German pronoun is either a net for fishing or a large river in France. I did a quick scan of the clickable words and came up with a rather long list which I forwarded to the publisher. A very nice response came and I was invited to be on the advisory board for the updated version. That was about two years ago. I don't look for this to be updated as I have seen the CD's in pockets in the backs of trade editions of Twain's works where these have never before appeared. At first, I used mine quite frequently, but like that really swell Christmas present we all wish for, the wrapping came off, and playing was fun for a while, but now the thing sits in a closet. Marcus W. Koechig